Lot 273
Art Union of London Copper Relief Panel Titled 'Madrid' by Elkington Mason & Co., mid 19th century
Lot 273 Details
Art Union of London Copper Relief Panel Titled 'Madrid' by Elkington Mason & Co., mid 19th century
after the 1853 work by R. Jefferson (signed, lower left) with maker's mark lower right, and with motto 'The Events Of War Are In The Hands Of Providence Alone'
19.5 x 38.75 in — 49.5 x 98.4 cm
Estimate $1,000-$1,500
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In August of 1812, Wellington received a delirious welcome from the citizens of Madrid when he liberated the starving city from French occupation during the Napoleonic Peninsular War of 1807-1814.
The artist, R. Jefferson, exhibited at the Royal Academy from 1853-1860. A year after Wellington's death in 1853, Jefferson won the Art Union prize for the best plaster model in low relief illustrating Wellington's triumphal entry into Madrid. The Art Journal in 1853 described the relief: 'It is a processional composition, full of figures of every degree, from the full round to the lowest relief. It is throughout extremely spirited and extremely successful in national characteristic'.